RE: FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC

2009-01-20 Thread Reng, Winfried
Hi, I often have lots of dialog boxes open (e.g. paragraph/ character designer, marker window), and I do not notice anything special. Specifically jumping around with the insertion mark or selecting text is fast. I have FM 8.0p277, 1 GB RAM, Windows 2000 Professional. Therefore I do not think

RE: How do you create a new paragraph after a table?

2009-01-20 Thread Reng, Winfried
Hi, When you set manual page breaks via Special | Page Break, you can decide, whether you want to remove them with a format import. There is a check box While Updating, Remove Manual Page Breaks. Best regards Winfried -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

Adobe announces FrameMaker 9 and Technical Communication

2009-01-20 Thread Carrie Baker
I looked at their announcement. What do you think they mean by New intunitve User Interface? and then Work more efficiently through a completely redesigned user experience. Does anyone know if this is a good thing. This sounds like a learning curve for experienced users.

How can I search for bold text and change it to a character style?

2009-01-20 Thread Avraham Makeler
Hi all, How can I search for bold text (this, I know how to do) and change it to a character style (this, not) ? TIA avi ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com.

Re: Adobe announces FrameMaker 9 and Technical Communication

2009-01-20 Thread Avraham Makeler
maybe there is some reverse psychology going on here: maybe they are trying to attract new users. Nobody likes to feel they are at the bottom of the class, which is what you are when you start out using a well-established app - so best to try something that is new to all. So the idea is to

Re: Adobe announces FrameMaker 9 and Technical Communication

2009-01-20 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Here's a presentation on what's new in TCS2: http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/newintcs2/ It looks nice. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Carrie Baker wrote: I looked at their announcement. What do you think they mean by New intunitve User Interface? and then Work more

Re: FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC

2009-01-20 Thread Avraham Makeler
I have demo-ed to myself that it is the Para Designer dial box that clobbers my editing speed. It's repeatable on my machine. Every computer architecture is different. So I just found a weak spot in my arch. as compared to some other machine. Tnx avi On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Reng,

RE: Adobe announces FrameMaker 9 and Technical Communication

2009-01-20 Thread John Sgammato
There is a more detailed presentation at https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a295153/p36735434/ The FM9 stuff starts around minute 23. I am watching the bit about roundtripping to Acrobat 9 for reviews. john -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

Re: How can I search for bold text and change it to a character style?

2009-01-20 Thread Art Campbell
Create a character style with the correct attributes. Apply it to something. Copy Special Character Style. Find, specifying the bold text, and replace by pasting. Art Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com ... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a

RE: How can I search for bold text and change it to a character style?

2009-01-20 Thread Fred Ridder
Responding to Avi's question, Art Campbell wrote: Create a character style with the correct attributes. Apply it to something. Copy Special Character Style. Find, specifying the bold text, and replace by pasting. Note that the Copy Special is Character *Format* rather than Character

Re: Adobe announces FrameMaker 9 and Technical Communication

2009-01-20 Thread Art Campbell
It means that the interface has been Adobe-ized, updated from the traditional FM look and feel. Pallets like Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. If you already know FM, your learning curve may last through two cups of coffee, if you drink slow. Art Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com ... In

RE: How do you create a new paragraph after a table?

2009-01-20 Thread Fred Ridder
Commenting on my previous reply, Winifred Reng wrote: When you set manual page breaks via Special | Page Break, you can decide, whether you want to remove them with a format import. There is a check box While Updating, Remove Manual Page Breaks. True enough. I forgot about that because my

TOOL: Very inexpensive alternative to Illustrator etc.

2009-01-20 Thread Stuart Rogers
If you have a requirement to create illustrations but don't want to shell out megabucks for the big name programs, take a look at http://site.xara.com/offers/xaraxtreme/ I've been using Xara for several years, and find it to be a fantastic value (even having paid full price). The offer above

RE: TOOL: Very inexpensive alternative to Illustrator etc.

2009-01-20 Thread Syed.Hosain
I agree completely! Last December, I bought their suite of three tools (Xara Extreme 4, Webstyle 4, and Xara 3D 6) for $119 as I recall (special for the holidays) and it was money well spent, IMHO. I liked it to the point where I decided not expense it to my company and just license it myself (so

ANN: New Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2 and new Adobe eLearning Suite

2009-01-20 Thread RJ Jacquez
*** I work for Adobe Systems, Inc. *** Hi All, I'm extremely excited to share with you that today we have announced the availability of two major Adobe Suites, the new Adobe eLearning Suitehttp://www.adobe.com/products/elearningsuite/ and the second version of the Technical Communication

RE: Adobe announces FrameMaker 9 and Technical Communication

2009-01-20 Thread Bernard Aschwanden (Publishing Smarter)
It will be a learning curve for experienced users. I've been working with this for a while now and I can tell you that it takes a while to get used to it. However, much like working with other tools, it's now a lot easier to configure the system for what I'm doing, rather than for what the

Re: Within Adobe Acrobat Reader, is FrameMaker markup (e.g., Track Text) searchable?

2009-01-20 Thread Art Campbell
Yes it is, assuming you have the related conditional text setting turned ON. Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com ... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl. -- Richard Thompson No

RE: Within Adobe Acrobat Reader, is FrameMaker markup (e.g., Track Text) searchable?

2009-01-20 Thread Fred Ridder
Responding to Avi Makeler, Art Campbell wrote: Yes it is, assuming you have the related conditional text setting turned ON. But I think this is the correct answer to a different question than what Avi was asking. The answer is correct in the sense that any text that appears in the PDF (i.e. by

Re: ANN: New Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2 and new Adobe eLearning Suite

2009-01-20 Thread Karen L. Zorn
I'm the President of the STC Phoenix chapter, and I couldn't be happier. We booked RJ to be our presenter for our Tuesday, February 2009 virtual meeting, so there's great timing for this new release. You can read more about the presentation at: *http://preview.tinyurl.com/7qdy36. *More

Report FrameMaker 9 plugin compatibilities here

2009-01-20 Thread Mike Wickham
A question that comes up with each new FrameMaker release is, are my old plugins still compatible? So I thought I'd start a thread where we can report plugins that do or don't work with FrameMaker 9. The thread would be especially invaluable if plugin developers would chime in about their own

Re: FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC

2009-01-20 Thread Mike Wickham
I have the same slow cursor speed with FrameMaker 8.0p277 on Windows XP Pro and on Vista. 1. If the Paragraph Designer is the only palette open, it takes 8 seconds to scroll across a 50-character column using the right-arrow key. 2. If the Character Designer is the only palette open, it takes 4

Re: Report FrameMaker 9 plugin compatibilities here

2009-01-20 Thread Scott Prentice
In general, plugins will be upward compatible .. and many will work just fine in FM9. Give it a try and see how it goes. :) FM9 does introduce a twist that may cause hiccups for some plugins that work with structured applications .. the default location for the structapps.fm file is now in

Re: FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC

2009-01-20 Thread Dave Reynolds
Thanks for the detailed reply, Mike. This thread has confirmed the behaviour I noticed last year when we upgraded from Frame 6 to Frame 8. In fact, I posted to the list about it in September, but I think I only got one reply. This is what I found last year: ** Hi I've noticed at

RE: FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC

2009-01-20 Thread Syed.Hosain
This pretty much sums up what I saw with some testing too, but I did not go to the level of detail that you have done here! I think that the constant refresh of information inside the Para and Char Designer boxes is what causes the slowdown. Thanks for the detailed information, Mike! Z

RE: FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC

2009-01-20 Thread Kelly McDaniel
It may be good news that FrameMaker v9 includes the para, char, and other design windows as floating pallets. In my tests on v9, there was no discernable difference when the pallets were displayed or closed. The pallets can be minimized at two levels. To recap: I think we are pretty well

RE: FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC

2009-01-20 Thread Combs, Richard
syed.hos...@aeris.net wrote: My results *definitely* confirmed that the cursor movement with the arrows is MUCH faster with the designer boxes not visible. Since I have a fast computer, I had only seen a bit of sluggishness in the past (I keep the Paragraph, Character and Table designer

Re: FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC

2009-01-20 Thread Mike Wickham
But what I don't understand is why so many Framers are saying they work with some or all of the Designer dialogs open. Why? Are you all creating new formats on the fly, continually as you write?? Mostly it's just for convenience. My templates are stable, so I don't change or create formats

Re: New Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2 and new AdobeeLearning Suite

2009-01-20 Thread Alan Litchfield
Looks good. The demo is well worth the time. Couple of observations: 1. It seems to be fairly slow in response. Maybe that was just the computer being used, but one would think that a demo would be created to minimise those kinds of things. Even Photoshop seemed quite fast by comparison. Is

RE: FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC

2009-01-20 Thread Syed.Hosain
Richard Combs wrote: Your explanation makes sense, and suggests that the degree of slowdown will depend on how many different pgf and char tags the cursor moves through. There's a lot of information displayed in the Designer dialogs, and if it changes every few characters or lines... I *think*

Adobe announces FrameMaker 9 and Technical Communication Suite 2

2009-01-20 Thread Yves Barbion
Hi FrameUsers It's here: http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/ http://www.adobe.com/products/technicalcommunicationsuite/ Cheers -- Yves Barbion ? Managing Director ? Adobe-Certified FrameMaker Instructor www.scripto.nu ? skype: yves.barbion ? T: +32 494 12 01 89

FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC

2009-01-20 Thread Reng, Winfried
Hi, I often have lots of dialog boxes open (e.g. paragraph/ character designer, marker window), and I do not notice anything special. Specifically jumping around with the insertion mark or selecting text is fast. I have FM 8.0p277, 1 GB RAM, Windows 2000 Professional. Therefore I do not think

How do you create a new paragraph after a table?

2009-01-20 Thread Reng, Winfried
Hi, When you set manual page breaks via "Special | Page Break", you can decide, whether you want to remove them with a format import. There is a check box "While Updating, Remove Manual Page Breaks". Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at

Adobe announces FrameMaker 9 and Technical Communication

2009-01-20 Thread Carrie Baker
I looked at their announcement. What do you think they mean by "New intunitve User Interface"? and then "Work more efficiently through a completely redesigned user experience." Does anyone know if this is a "good thing". This sounds like a learning curve for experienced users.

How can I search for bold text and change it to a character style?

2009-01-20 Thread Avraham Makeler
Hi all, How can I search for bold text (this, I know how to do) and change it to a character style (this, not) ? TIA avi

Adobe announces FrameMaker 9 and Technical Communication

2009-01-20 Thread Avraham Makeler
maybe there is some reverse psychology going on here: maybe they are trying to attract new users. Nobody likes to feel they are at the bottom of the class, which is what you are when you start out using a well-established app - so best to try something that is new to all. So the idea is to

Adobe announces FrameMaker 9 and Technical Communication

2009-01-20 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Here's a presentation on what's new in TCS2: http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/newintcs2/ It looks nice. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Carrie Baker wrote: > I looked at their announcement. > What do you think they mean by > "New intunitve User Interface"? and then "Work

FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC

2009-01-20 Thread Avraham Makeler
I have demo-ed to myself that it is the Para Designer dial box that clobbers my editing speed. It's repeatable on my machine. Every computer architecture is different. So I just found a weak spot in my arch. as compared to some other machine. Tnx avi On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Reng,

Adobe announces FrameMaker 9 and Technical Communication

2009-01-20 Thread John Sgammato
There is a more detailed presentation at https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a295153/p36735434/ The FM9 stuff starts around minute 23. I am watching the bit about roundtripping to Acrobat 9 for reviews. john -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

Adobe announces FrameMaker 9 and Technical Communication

2009-01-20 Thread Art Campbell
It means that the interface has been Adobe-ized, updated from the traditional FM look and feel. Pallets like Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. If you already know FM, your learning curve may last through two cups of coffee, if you drink slow. Art Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com "...

How do you create a new paragraph after a table?

2009-01-20 Thread Fred Ridder
Commenting on my previous reply, Winifred Reng wrote:> When you set manual page breaks via "Special | Page Break", > you can decide, whether you want to remove them with a format > import. There is a check box "While Updating, Remove Manual > Page Breaks". True enough. I forgot about that

How can I search for bold text and change it to a character style?

2009-01-20 Thread Art Campbell
Create a character style with the correct attributes. Apply it to something. Copy Special > Character Style. Find, specifying the bold text, and replace by pasting. Art Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a

How can I search for bold text and change it to a character style?

2009-01-20 Thread Fred Ridder
Responding to Avi's question, Art Campbell wrote: > Create a character style with the correct attributes. > Apply it to something. > Copy Special > Character Style. > Find, specifying the bold text, and replace by pasting. Note that the Copy Special is Character *Format* rather than Character

TOOL: Very inexpensive alternative to Illustrator etc.

2009-01-20 Thread Stuart Rogers
If you have a requirement to create illustrations but don't want to shell out megabucks for the big name programs, take a look at http://site.xara.com/offers/xaraxtreme/ I've been using Xara for several years, and find it to be a fantastic value (even having paid full price). The offer above

TOOL: Very inexpensive alternative to Illustrator etc.

2009-01-20 Thread syed.hos...@aeris.net
I agree completely! Last December, I bought their suite of three tools (Xara Extreme 4, Webstyle 4, and Xara 3D 6) for $119 as I recall (special for the holidays) and it was money well spent, IMHO. I liked it to the point where I decided not expense it to my company and just license it myself (so

Within Adobe Acrobat Reader, is FrameMaker markup (e.g., Track Text) searchable?

2009-01-20 Thread Avraham Makeler
Hi all, Is FrameMaker Track Text searchable within Adobe Reader (or some equivalent)? (Or even within Acrobat?) If not, is there any type of markup that is automatically applied when editing within FM, that is transfered to the PDF, and is searchable within Adobe Reader (or some equivalent)?

ANN: New Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2 and new Adobe eLearning Suite

2009-01-20 Thread RJ Jacquez
*** I work for Adobe Systems, Inc. *** Hi All, I'm extremely excited to share with you that today we have announced the availability of two major Adobe Suites, the new Adobe eLearning Suite and the second version of the Technical Communication

Adobe announces FrameMaker 9 and Technical Communication

2009-01-20 Thread Bernard Aschwanden (Publishing Smarter)
It will be a learning curve for experienced users. I've been working with this for a while now and I can tell you that it takes a while to get used to it. However, much like working with other tools, it's now a lot easier to configure the system for what I'm doing, rather than for what the

New Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2 and new AdobeeLearning Suite

2009-01-20 Thread Combs, Richard
RJ Jacquez wrote: > What's New in the Adobe Technical Communication > 2 Excellent overview and demo! The changes in TCS 2 go way beyond the improvements to FM and RH with which I was familiar. Everyone on this list should spend the 40 minutes or so to

Within Adobe Acrobat Reader, is FrameMaker markup (e.g., Track Text) searchable?

2009-01-20 Thread Art Campbell
Yes it is, assuming you have the related conditional text setting turned ON. Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson No

FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC

2009-01-20 Thread syed.hos...@aeris.net
> I often have lots of dialog boxes open (e.g. paragraph/character designer, marker window), and I do not notice anything special. Specifically jumping around with the insertion mark or selecting text is fast. > I have FM 8.0p277, 1 GB RAM, Windows 2000 Professional. > Therefore I do not think

Within Adobe Acrobat Reader, is FrameMaker markup (e.g., Track Text) searchable?

2009-01-20 Thread Fred Ridder
Responding to Avi Makeler, Art Campbell wrote:> Yes it is, assuming you have the related conditional text setting turned ON. But I think this is the correct answer to a different question than what Avi was asking. The answer is correct in the sense that any text that appears in the PDF (i.e.

ANN: New Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2 and new Adobe eLearning Suite

2009-01-20 Thread Karen L. Zorn
I'm the President of the STC Phoenix chapter, and I couldn't be happier. We booked RJ to be our presenter for our Tuesday, February 2009 virtual meeting, so there's great timing for this new release. You can read more about the presentation at: *http://preview.tinyurl.com/7qdy36. *More

Report FrameMaker 9 plugin compatibilities here

2009-01-20 Thread Mike Wickham
A question that comes up with each new FrameMaker release is, "are my old plugins still compatible?" So I thought I'd start a thread where we can report plugins that do or don't work with FrameMaker 9. The thread would be especially invaluable if plugin developers would chime in about their own

FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC

2009-01-20 Thread Mike Wickham
I have the same slow cursor speed with FrameMaker 8.0p277 on Windows XP Pro and on Vista. 1. If the Paragraph Designer is the only palette open, it takes 8 seconds to scroll across a 50-character column using the right-arrow key. 2. If the Character Designer is the only palette open, it takes 4

Report FrameMaker 9 plugin compatibilities here

2009-01-20 Thread Scott Prentice
In general, plugins will be upward compatible .. and many will work just fine in FM9. Give it a try and see how it goes. :) FM9 does introduce a twist that may cause hiccups for some plugins that work with structured applications .. the default location for the structapps.fm file is now in

FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC

2009-01-20 Thread syed.hos...@aeris.net
This pretty much sums up what I saw with some testing too, but I did not go to the level of detail that you have done here! I think that the constant "refresh" of information inside the Para and Char Designer boxes is what causes the slowdown. Thanks for the detailed information, Mike! Z

FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC

2009-01-20 Thread Kelly McDaniel
It may be good news that FrameMaker v9 includes the para, char, and other design windows as floating pallets. In my tests on v9, there was no discernable difference when the pallets were displayed or closed. The pallets can be minimized at two levels. To recap: I think we are pretty well

FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC

2009-01-20 Thread Combs, Richard
Syed.Hosain at aeris.net wrote: > My results *definitely* confirmed that the cursor movement with the > arrows is MUCH faster with the designer boxes not visible. Since I have > a fast computer, I had only seen a bit of sluggishness in the past (I > keep the Paragraph, Character and Table

FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC

2009-01-20 Thread Mike Wickham
> But what I don't understand is why so many Framers are saying they work > with some or all of the Designer dialogs open. Why? Are you all creating > new formats on the fly, continually as you write?? Mostly it's just for convenience. My templates are stable, so I don't change or create formats

Adobe announces FM9 and Tech Comm Suite 2

2009-01-20 Thread Maxwell Hoffmann
Adobe officially announced FrameMaker 9 and Technical Communication Suite 2 today: http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200901/012009adobeTe chCom2.html I was one of the beta-testers and this product is a true "major" release. The most significant upgrade I've seen in well

New Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2 and new AdobeeLearning Suite

2009-01-20 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Alan... 1) It does seem a bit slower than FM8 (which was slower than FM7.x, and so on), but not bad at all. 2) As far as I know, all of the keyboard functionality is still available. 3) Saves to FM8 (document) and FM7 (MIF) 4) I'm not sure what you mean about the per license cost. In order to

FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC

2009-01-20 Thread syed.hos...@aeris.net
Richard Combs wrote: > Your explanation makes sense, and suggests that the degree of slowdown will depend on how many different pgf and char tags the cursor moves through. There's a lot of information displayed in the Designer dialogs, and if it changes every few characters or lines... I *think*

Importing Multi Page Tiffs, How ??

2009-01-20 Thread Richard Melanson
I posted this yesterday and was just wondering if anyone received it, thank you. Hello Framers, I have spent the last couples of hours trying to find an answer to this question. I am importing by reference TIFFs into a Framemaker 8 file. The TIFFs are a single file with multiple pages, but